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Wild ginger / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Political fiction.; Communism; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Empress Orchid / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908; Empresses;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 23
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Becoming Madame Mao / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Includes bibliographical references (page 340).
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991; Married women; Spouses of heads of state; Spouses of heads of state; Statesmen; Stateswomen;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Pearl of China : a novel / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973; Women novelists; Americans; Friendship in children; Female friendship; Americans; Friendship; Women's friendships.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
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Empress Orchid / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
From the master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the splendid heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes china's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seizes power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When china is threatened by enemies, she alone sees capable of holding her country together. A novel of high drama and lyricism and lavish historical detail, Empress Orchid provides an extraordinary look inside the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and breathes life into one of the most important women in history.
Subjects: Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908; Empresses;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The last empress / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
"A novel"--JacketThe last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China"s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch"ing dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min"s critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of this complex woman"s life. The Last Empress is the story of Orchid"s dramatic transition from a strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvy leader. Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid must not only face the perilous condition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to early death. Yearning only to step aside, and yet growing constantly into her role, only she allied with the progressives, but loyal to the conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty can hold the nation"s rival factions together.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908; Empresses;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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Pearl of China : a novel / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
As a girl in Maoist China, Min (Red Azalea) was ordered to denounce Pearl S. Buck; now she offers a thin sketch of the Nobel laureate's life from the point of view of fictional Willow Yee, a fiercely loyal friend. A lifelong friendship begins in Chin-kiang when Willow meets Pearl, whose missionary father converts Willow's educated but impoverished father. Under threat from hostilities toward foreigners, Pearl departs for the safety of Shanghai, and, later, to America for college, but she returns for her wedding to find that Willow is the satisfied founder of a newspaper and a very unhappy wife. While a changing China swirls around them, their friendship is tested as they both fall in love with the same poet. As the 1949 revolution looms, Pearl flees China, and Willow's husband becomes Mao's right-hand man, leading to a fateful showdown with Madam Mao when Willow refuses to denounce her lifelong friend. Though the setting and revolutionary backdrop are inherently dramatic, Min's account of an epic friendship is curiously low-key, with some sections reading more like a treatment than a narrative.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973; Americans; Female friendship; Friendship in children; Women novelists; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Becoming Madame Mao / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Includes bibliographical references (page 340).From the Publisher: In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"--Ambitious, vindictive, and cruel-whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Min's story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother's pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl. She later fled the miseries of her family life, first to a provincial opera troupe, then to Shanghai and fame as an actress, and finally to the arid, mountainous regions of Yenan, where she fell in love with and married Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Min uses the facts of history and her lush, penetrating psychological imagination to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly, and whose ambition was matched only by her ferocious, never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. A daring narrative with all the compressed drama and high lyrical poetry of great opera, BECOMING MADAME MAO is the most ambitious and provocative work of Anchee Min's career.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991; Spouses of heads of state; Married women; Statesmen;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Red azalea / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Min, Anchee, 1957-;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Red Azalea / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
A woman who grew up in China during its Cultural Revolution describes the grueling physical labor she endured on Red Fire Farm, her forced segregation from men, her sexual relationship with her platoon leader, and her introduction to acting.HL640L
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Min, Anchee, 1957-;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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